Ramapo Mountains

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The Ramapo Mountains are a 50 km long mountain range of the Appalachian Mountains in Northern New Jersey and the extreme southeast of the State of New York.

They run hercynisch, so in Southeast Northwest direction along a fault that runs approximately at right angles to the state border between New York and New Jersey from Bear Peak on the east bank of the Hudson River in New York. Set to this length represents the westernmost ridge of the Appalachian Mountains and limit the level of filled with Mesozoic sediments and volcanics Newark Basin ( Newark Basin ) to the northwest; then enter into the Ramapo Mountains Precambrian metamorphic rocks the upcoming ( gneiss, quartzite ) of the Appalachian Mountains to the surface. Subsequent to the northwest highlands is known as New Jersey Highlands, which is still located in New York as part of Hudson Highlands.

Although situated within sight of Manhattan, the steeply rising Ramapo Mountains and its hinterland were difficult to access until well into the 20th century. In the seclusion of the mountains formed since the 19th century, a distinct ethnic group out, called The Descent this group that sees itself as a descendant of the Indian tribe of the Lenni Lenape, is still controversial, " Ramapo Mountain Indians. "; mostly they are conceived as comparable population groups such as the Lumbees in North Carolina or the Melungeons of the Southern Appalachians as so-called " three -blooded isolate " ( triracial isolate ), which resulted from the mixing of white, African American and Native American settlers.